Check out day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 of my trip with my parents!
My parents came over to Korea for about 8 days so I decided to show them around Seoul and various spots around the country. I started off picking them up from the airport and getting them a rented phone (3,000 a day + 100 per 10 seconds) in case we got separated (which happened once). A nice student from SNU randomly met them in the airport and let them use his phone to call me from the luggage pick-up area so I knew they were inside. After exchanging some US cash we left for downtown Seoul where we would be staying in a up-scale love motel for four days right smack dab in the middle of Seoul near Jongno 3 station on line 5. After settling in we went out for some dinner where we had 삼겹살, 닭갈비, and 해물파전. After returning to the apartment I turned on the TV to show my parents some Korean programming and we found Roller Coaster which turned out extremely funny to me and my parents even though they couldn’t speak Korean. Watching the manikins in situations like humans with real people talking to them and what not turned out more funny than I thought.
Stay tuned for a post on every day of my trip with details on where we went and what we did. Destinations include Gyeongbok Palace, the DMZ (JSA), ancient Shilla relics in beautiful Gyeongju, herbal medicine market in Daegu, a martial arts templestay for a day and night at Golgulsa, and the Korea Folk Village.
That would be so fun!
I have a question! Kind of obscure but maybe you might know somebody who would know something about this…
I’m trying to get an ebook (in Korean) from kyobobooks online. I was able to buy it successfully, but now I can’t download it. It wants to install a program called “eBookCase” and it’s not working properly on my computer. The installer is all in 한글 and it only displays as a bunch of question marks (I can see 한글 fine on other things, but not this. I guess because my computer OS is in English). I’ve been looking around and it looks like a few other Korean sites use this program too, like city libraries and stuff, but I can’t find anywhere else to download it from. Or if I could get it in English that would be even better.
Originally the plan was to see if I could get a Korean e-book to work on a Kindle (which I don’t actually *have* yet), but at this point I’m just trying to get it onto my computer!
Check out this post: http://www.mstrum.com/onmywaytokorea/2010/02/19/any-solutions-for-software-that-doesnt-display-correctly/